MANY OF THESE HINTS WILL NOT TAKE AWAY FROM THE FLAVOR OR APPEARANCE
If you are dieting, keep in mind that pasta is 210 per cup. Limit yourself to that amount if you are a female and IF YOU HAVE NOT ADDED GROUND MEAT TO THE SAUCE. Now is the part that can make it a beautiful exciting dish. Steam some sliced or cut up vegetables such as carrots, yellow and green and/or orange peppers, yellow and zucchini squash, onions, black olives, mushrooms and whatever vegetables that suite your fancy.
Mix the pasta and sauce and about 1 cup of vegetables into it and then spoon some more of the vegetables on top.
Hint: Prepare a large amount of the vegetables and save them to serve as a side dish for the next day.
WAY 2: If you like a large amount of pasta but also want to stay 100% on your diet, cook a spaghetti squash that has been cut, face down, in about 1 inch of water in the microwave until soft. WARNING: BE SURE TO TAKE THE SEEDS OUT OF THE SQUASH BEFORE COOKING. Add as much of the spaghetti squash as you wish to 1 cup of cooked pasta and mix in 3/4 cup of jarred spaghetti sauce which is 60 calories a half cup or less.
Hint: I recommend taking out the seeds from the squash before cooking, as it is difficult to remove them from the cooked squash.
Hint: Ask someone in the produce department cut the squash in half for you, it is a difficult job for most of us.
Hint: Most spaghetti squashes are large and you can make several packets of it after it is cooked and cooled to put in the freezer.
Hint: I recommend taking out the seeds from the squash before cooking, as it is difficult to remove them from the cooked squash.
Hint: Ask someone in the produce department cut the squash in half for you, it is a difficult job for most of us.
Hint: Most spaghetti squashes are large and you can make several packets of it after it is cooked and cooled to put in the freezer.
Note: Regular spaghetti is 210 calories per cup and Spaghetti squash totals 38 calories a cup.
Way 3: Purchase lean ground beef or turkey and crumble and saute' until the meat is cooked. Drain well to get all of the saturated fat out of the bottom of the pan and gently pat the meat where more fat has adhered to before pouring sauce over meat.
Hint: Saute' some chopped onions with the beef if desired.
Hint: I might be an old fashioned girl but a smart one. I no longer make my spaghetti sauce. Like most people in my generation it was what we called 'from scratch' and consisted mostly of
garlic, canned stewed tomatoes, tomato sauce and tomato paste. Many of the jarred spaghetti sauces of today are better than most of those that Italian restaurants serve. My favorite is not the lowest in calories. It is Classico Four Cheese and is 80 calories a half cup.
Hint: Saute' some chopped onions with the beef if desired.
Hint: I might be an old fashioned girl but a smart one. I no longer make my spaghetti sauce. Like most people in my generation it was what we called 'from scratch' and consisted mostly of
garlic, canned stewed tomatoes, tomato sauce and tomato paste. Many of the jarred spaghetti sauces of today are better than most of those that Italian restaurants serve. My favorite is not the lowest in calories. It is Classico Four Cheese and is 80 calories a half cup.
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